Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

Amanda J. Lubit is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Post-Doctoral Fellow at Dublin City University. She is also engaged at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. In 2022 she was awarded the Human Rights Defender Award by the Society for Applied Anthropology.

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Preface

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Who Are the Muslim women of Northern Ireland?



Chapter 1. The Northern Ireland Context: Impacts upon Migration and Gender

Chapter 2. Northern Ireland’s Migrant Muslim Population

Chapter 3. The Role of Islamic Clothing in Visibility

Chapter 4. The Intentional Invisibility of Islamic Women’s Spaces

Chapter 5. The Institutional Nature of Sectarianism: Shaping Sexism, Racism and Islamophobia

Chapter 6. ‘Maybe I Make Mistake Coming to Northern Ireland’: Navigating Housing Competition and Neighbourhood Aggression

Chapter 7. ‘Don’t Fit in Anywhere’: Social Exclusion and Barriers to Belonging

Chapter 8. A Harnessing the Creative Power of Care to Achieve Belonging and Emplacement

Chapter 9. Women-Only Spaces within the Islamic Centre

Chapter 10. Sadiqa: A Women-Only Space for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees

Chapter 11. Spatial, Temporal, Material and Social Realities of Seeking Asylum

Chapter 12. Creating Sadiqa Women’s Space: Transforming Place as a Tactic for Managing Life in Asylum

Chapter 13. A Time of Confinement: Reconfiguring Life in Online Spaces during COVID-19

Chapter 14. Connection in the Face of Northern Ireland’s Digital Divide



Conclusion: Exploring the Connections between Visibility, Movement, Placemaking and Empowerment



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Index